KARACHI - Pakistan People’s Party lashes out at the parties which were demanding re-poll across Sindh. Addressing a press conference at Karachi Press Club, PPP Sindh General Secretary Taj Haider, Professor ND Khan, Shazia Atta Marri and others observed that under the formula of late Jam ...

Raising hue and cry that the elections have been rigged has been the norm of the defeated parties in Pakistan, while the winning parties have invariably tried to laugh away the charge; this time, it has been no different. The PTI has been in the forefront staging protest demonstrations and sit-ins ...

LOS ANGELES: Adele has scored highly in a US poll on the likeability of musicians. The singer scored a 54 per cent positive rating and an 18pc negative one in the Public Policy Polling results. Justin Bieber, Chris Brown and Lady GaGa all performed badly. Taylor Swift also scored well with 53pc ...

PESHAWAR The PML-N Central Senior Vice President and losing candidate from NA-9 Mardan-I, Khwaja Muhammad Khan Hoti, has accused the caretaker government and Election Commission of Pakistan’s officials of favouring his opponent former chief minister Haider Hoti in the general election, and ...

PESHAWARRejecting the election results of NA-46 Khyber Agency, a group of aspirants belonging to different political parties and independent candidates from the constituency, has demanded re-election under the Army supervision, and deployment of impartial polling staff from any other ...

karachi - Jamaat-e-Islami has decided to file a petition within a day or two in Supreme Court of Pakistan for re-elections in Karachi.This was announced by JI Sindh Chief Dr Mairajul Huda Siddiqui while addressing a sit-in protest rally at II Chundrigarh Road near SC Registry Office here on ...

ISLAMABAD On the complaint of a PTI contestant, a returning officer has ordered votes recounting today (Tuesday) for a National Assembly constituency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa after receiving reports of the stealing of 30,000 ballot papers allegedly misused to cast fake votes on May 11, the polling day ...

ISLAMABAD - Acting on the complaints of rigging in several constituencies in Karachi and other parts of the country, the Election Commission of Pakistan has sought all records from DRO, RO, DPOs pertaining to rigging.The commission took the step to conduct a thorough review and decide ...

LONDON  - The number of Britons who believe Queen Elizabeth II should hand over to Prince Charles before her death has increased, although a majority still think she should reign for life, an opinion poll found on Sunday.Some 53 per cent of voters said the 87-year-old monarch should resist any ...

  quetta   Although the Election Commission of Pakistan has not announced results yet; however, the unofficial results suggest a clear victory for the nationalist parties in the province. The Pushtunkhwa Mili Awami Party of Mehmood Khan Achakzai has emerged as the strongest party so far, ...

SHEIKHUPURASeveral firing incidents were reporting in various parts of the district during polling process and the police arrested more than one dozen people for breaching the election code of conduct and creating scene.As per detail, in village Muridke in NA-131 constituency some miscreants ...

lahoreAll the three Sharifs contesting elections in Lahore have won their respective seats.As per unofficial results, PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif has conquered NA-68 Sargodha seat defeating Hayat Kalyar of PTI, and Dr Yasmin Rashid of the same party in NA-120 Lahore. Former chief minister Shahbaz ...

Karachi - Pakistan stocks closed yet again at all time high led by stocks across the board on renewed foreign interest and speculations ahead of general elections.KSE-100 share index gained 254.81 points or 1.30 percent to end the day at 19,916.27 points compared to 19,661.46 points of the previous ...

ISLAMABAD - Since the May 2013 elections are going to be conducted today (Saturday), major political parties of the country are not only dissatisfied with the arrangements of caretaker government but also deeply concerned over the results of the elections in given circumstances.Expressing their ...

  quetta   The Balochistan government has decided to take strict action against the staff that would not perform duty on the polling day. As per spokesman of the government, all resources are being used for conducting free, fair and peaceful election. “The governmental has decided a ...

There is a clear feeling that the election that will take place tomorrow is a watershed, but what exactly does that watershed consist of? Is it about choosing the right ruler? Or is it also about a change in the party system? Perhaps, a more basic question on that has been revived by the militant ...

Lahore/Peshawar - To maintain law and order during the May 11 elections, around 300,000 security personnel will be deployed in Punjab while 96,000 personnel will provide security in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Fata.These decisions were made at two meetings chaired by Army Chief Gen Ashfaq Pervez Kayani ...

KUALA LUMPUR: Anwar Ibrahim vowed Tuesday his Malaysian opposition would soon present evidence of government cheating in bitterly fought weekend elections as he called for a “fierce” campaign for electoral reform. Anwar insisted his three-party Pakatan Rakyat (People’s Pact) ...

faisalabad (News desk) - An independent candidate for NA-83 Faisalabad, Amjad Rabbani has passed away due to a cardiac arrest here on Tuesday. Following the death of Amjad Rabbani, the Election Commission of Pakistan has announced postponement of the polling for NA-83 and declared that new schedule ...

ISLAMABAD - Balochistan Chief Minister, Nawab Ghaus Bakhsh Khan Barozai, called on Prime Minister Justice (Retd) Mir Hazar Khan Khoso at Prime Minister House on Tuesday.The Chief Minister briefed the Prime Minister about the preparations made by the Balochistan government for the general elections ...

KARACHI - Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani Tuesday stressed implementation of integrated and well-coordinated security plan to ensure peaceful elections. According to Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) DG Maj-Gen Asim Salim Bajwa, the COAS said this during a detailed ...

HANGU/LOWER DIR - At least 18 people were killed and 53 injured in two bomb attacks on the political rallies of JUI-F in Hangu and PPP in Lower Dir on Tuesday.In the first incident, a bomb exploded at the rally of Jamiat-e-Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) when it was passing through the main market in ...

KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak began a second term Monday after the coalition which has ruled for 56 years held on to power in elections branded as fraudulent by a bitter opposition.Opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim called for a rally in two days’ time to protest at a victory ...

Lahore - The Lahore High Court full bench on Monday deferred the hearing of a petition moved by former president General (r) Pervez Musharraf, challenging his disqualification, for indefinite time. The bench passed the orders when it came to know that the All Pakistan Muslim League -- headed by ...

Islamabad - The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) will share the official and unofficial election results in order to update the public about the developments in respective constituencies through instant information sharing.Generally, it has been witnessed that polls results are notified two to ...

QUETTA - Pakistan Army has arrived in all the districts of Balochistan and will take action to ensure a peaceful polling if needed.According to ISPR, Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani was given a briefing on the matters of the elections in Balochistan as he arrived in Quetta for a ...

QUETTA - Neck-and-neck competition is anticipated between political heavyweights on 14 national and 51 provincial assembly seats in Balochistan and, as usual, no party will gain majority in the province to be able to form a government.The first national constituency is NA-259, Quetta city, which ...

PESHAWAR - Zakha Khel tribe from Khyber Agency on Sunday threatened to boycott May 11 polls, if polling stations set up for Zakha Khel tribesmen in IDPs camps were not shifted to their respective areas.They announced boycott of May 11 elections in protest against shifting of polling stations to ...

Quetta - Three people, including an attacker, were killed and another wounded in a bomb attack on convoy of an independent election candidate for PB-21 in Sibi district, some 160 kilometres southeast of Quetta, on Sunday.A security official said one of the attackers was killed in trade of fire with ...

quetta - Female teachers on Saturday took out a protest rally in Quetta, threatening to boycott elections if their demands were not met. Teachers’ leaders said female teachers were facing serious threats from banned outfits against performing duties at polling stations in different parts of ...